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# mottled

adjective

«mottled» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Mottled means marked with patches or blotches of different colours, like a speckled coat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mottled/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories it describes an animal's skin, coat or jacket: a frog, a tiger or a dog with coloured patches

### Examples

- The frog had a bright green, mottled coat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mottled/#x1)
- The mottled brown and yellow jacket shone in the sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mottled/#x2)
- A toad with mottled skin sat under the leaf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mottled/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; it describes colour, not a count.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mottled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mottled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mottled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mottled.html) on Mova free.